The Imageboard Search Engine

Anime Search Engine

To perform search you need to compose a search phrase. In most simple cases it is just a list of tags to search for: `Tsukiyomi Hazuki` – this will search for images tagged either as «Tsukiyomi» or «Hazuki».

However, you can do a lot more filtering using a search phrase…

Complete descripption with all boring details and options can be found at the API Reference help page, «Phrase syntax» section.

Also, if you want to see *all* possible tags look here – but be aware that it's a very huge page (if your browser supports compression, it's near 2 MiB, otherwise it's more than 10 MiB).

Common rules

* char case is NoT TaKeN into account.
* tags and/or other modifiers can be supplied in any order: `breasts site=gelbooru, nekobooru cleavage`
* : can be replaced with ＝ and , with ;

Sample queries (sorry for a little ecchi :P)

`bottomless -bunnygirl` – search for «bottomless» tag but exclude images tagged as «bunnygirl».
`+bottomless +topless -bunnygirl` – search for images wchi include both tags ("bottomless" & «topless») but, again, don't include the «bunnygirl» tag.
`bottomless topless -bunnygirl` – see, there are no «+» here? This will return you images which include *either* «bottomless» *or* «topless» tag. None of them will include «bunnygirl», though.
If you've got lazy you can perform a partial match: `Urushihara*` – this will match all tags starting with «Urushihara», like «Urushihara_Satoshi».

Getting serious

`rating=s,q` – show all images which are safe or questionable.
You can of course combine it with some tags, like: `nipples rating=q` or: `loli rating=s` (guess how many safe lolies are out there :P).
*Ratinng codes:* (s)afe (q)uestionable (e)xplicit (0) – not rated yet.

You can filter images by site:
`site:nekobooru jigglygirls` – search for all «jigglygirls» on Nekobooru
`site:gelbooru, danbooru, konachan +loli +pantsu` – look for images tagged *both* as «loli» & «pantsu» on Gelbooru, Danbooru & Konachan image boards.
`-site=dan` – if you really don't like Danbooru's «You need a privileged account...» you can exclude it from the search.

For the navigation's sake!..

`view:table fellatio limit:100 naked sort:site` – the search results of «fellatio» & «naked» tags will be shown as *table* with *100* images per page (that's the max). In addition, they'll be sorted by site name, so Akyu Genso goes the first, Danbooru the next, then Gelbooru, etc. and the last ones will be Wakku Wakku: & Wild Critters (I'm listing this so thoroughly specially for Google :))

If you want, you can sort in reversed order, e.g. `naked sort:width, desc` – will sort images by width starting from the biggest ones.

You can also jump to a specific page using «#» + page_number construct. E.g.: «cameltoe seifuku limit:15 #5» – will bring you to the *fifth* page.

Walking a dimension

`+cynthia +pokemon width>=1024 height>=800` – it's possible to use these math operators: < ⇐ != (not equal) ＝ >= >
Filtering by size comes in handy when you're looking for a wallpaper.
In case of wallpaper hunting «score» mod might be also helpful: `+swimsuit +hinata score>=10`

For the most curious...

You can search by a specific MD5 hash of a picture: `md5=abcd1234...`
...or a specific ID which an image has on an image board site and even apply some math to it: `board_id=62517`, `board_id>1000`

If you include several hashes search will match either of them, e.g.: `md5=abc... md5=123... md5=...`

A Similarity Glow

You can use recently added feature of similarity search. In a few words, it allows you to select similar images based on relevance.
For example, take these tags: `mahotama gif doujin fang` – if you search for phrase `sim=2 mahotama gif doujin fang` it will return images which have at least two of the given tags.
Search for `sim:3 ahegao mithra gelbooru naked` will return images with at least 3 tags.

More details are available in the API Reference, «Similarity relevance calculation» section.

Hurryman

Some boards have sooo long names and we want to do a quick… err, whatever. No problems, we're here to help ya. *Use these aliases:*
E.g. `site=gel, nekobooru` is the same as `site=gelbooru, neko`

*Gelbooru-powered imageboards*
* Gelbooru ＝ gel
* Nekobooru ＝ neko
* Moe Imouto ＝ moe
* Konachan ＝ kona
* Sankaku Complex ＝ sank
* Wakku Wakku: ＝ wakku
* Wild Critters ＝ wild
* Safebooru ＝ safe
* Tag Gallery ＝ tag
* Ichigo Channel ＝ ichi
* Akyu Genso ＝ genso
* Lolibooru ＝ loli
* XBooru ＝ xbooru
* e621 ＝ e621

*Shimmie-based*
* Angel HQ ＝ ahq
* Anime Mahou ＝ mahou
* Rule 34 ＝ r34
* Toubooru (Touhou universe imageboard) ＝ tou
* One Yukkuri Place ＝ yukkuri
* Ecchion ＝ ecchion

*Powered by other engines*
* Danbooru ＝ dan
* Anime Galleries ＝ anigal
* e Shuu Shuu ＝ shuu